How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . the Roman and Greek, absorbedmens minds. Raphael, as we have noted, clothed thestory of the Bible in classic garb; classic myths, classicthought and literature, filled the imagination of the ar-tists and thinkers; religion and a revived paganismskipped hand in hand. I use the word skipped, be-cause of the joy which possessed the Italians of the fif-teenth and early sixteenth centuries in th
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . the Roman and Greek, absorbedmens minds. Raphael, as we have noted, clothed thestory of the Bible in classic garb; classic myths, classicthought and literature, filled the imagination of the ar-tists and thinkers; religion and a revived paganismskipped hand in hand. I use the word skipped, be-cause of the joy which possessed the Italians of the fif-teenth and early sixteenth centuries in the new realiza-tion of their racial love of beauty. Painter after painterbefore Leonardos time had tried to give expression toit; he was the heir of their endeavors and the contem-porary of a number of gifted men, who gathered atFlorence and under the patronage of the Medici madeit a reflection of what Athens had been under Pericles. The diff*erent character of the German Renaissancewe shall best appreciate by noting that it was a part ofthe great movement which produced Luther and theReformation. It was first and foremost an intellectualand moral revival; in time to be the parent of that civil [112]. VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS LEONARDO DA VINCI LOUVRE, PARIS
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